GREAT FALLS — Collecting comes in all shapes and sizes. But for one Montana man, it's the spinach-loving sailor that caught his attention and kept it for almost 50 years. Colin Maynard has been a fan ...

His credo is ‘I yam what I yam, and that’s all what I yam.’ His girlfriend is the gangly, uncoordinated Olive Oyl, for whose attention Popeye vies constantly with Bluto, his bearded, hulking rival.

But Popeye made spinach popular. Segar launched his "Thimble Theatre" comic strip starring Olive Oyl in the New York Journal ...

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Olive Oyl, Popeye’s eternally lanky and lovable sweetheart, will be portrayed by Zoey Deutch. This casting choice reflects ...

Popeye popped up the next January in a strip called Thimble Theater by cartoonist E.C. Segar. A character named Castor Oyl, brother of Olive, approached a seaman who's immediately recognizable ...

The early version of the cartoon sailor is now in public domain, and he's already the star of a slasher movie.